For a Sustainable Syracuse

Declaration of Candidacy by Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for Mayor of Syracuse

May 4, 2017

A mayoral candidate ought to provide voters with a Strategic Vision for where he or she wants Syracuse to move during his or her administration and an Action Plan for getting there.

Strategic Vision

Sustainable Syracuse is strategic vision for making our city sustainable fiscally, economically, and ecologically. I want to focus city resources and policies on uplifting poor and working-class people. That will reduce the crime and school problems that come with concentrated poverty. With lower crime and improved schools, Syracuse will retain and attract middle-class people and businesses. That is how we can build a sustainable prosperity for all of us.